okay, so maybe my middle name
isn't
siberian girl, but i did go to siberia during the summer of '99,
and while i was
there i dropped by mongolia, just for fun. there's not much in mongolia,
but there are a LOT of mongolians, believe me. it was all part of my
adventure on the trans-siberian express, the longest train-ride in the
world. that clunky shower-less train brought me more or less in one piece
from moscow to beijing. i even wrote a
story about it, complete with pictures.
there are lots more links to my traveling endeavors at the bottom
of this page...

when i'm not on the road, i'm a student at columbia university, where i pay lots
of money to work really hard and get really stressed out.
i'm majoring in math and
economics,
and learning as many languages as i possibly can. no, i don't know what
i'll end up doing, but as long as it involves traveling and math, i won't
complain.

i took the fall semester of 2000 off from columbia to travel through latin
america and
learn spanish. to put it mildly, it was a very intense experience
involving beautiful places, fascinating people, a very sexy language, an
appendectimy, and a dogbite or two. if you'll be in that neck of the woods
anytime soon, or if you're just interested, read the 50 things i learned while traveling in central
america. if that's not enough for you, you can also read the
56 things i learned while traveling
in europe.

at columbia, i work in the graduate school of architecture for a wacky woman named
heidi and her sidekick deborah. heidi and deborah can go-go like no others.
at work, heidi and deborah teach me useful job skills like how to give myself
fake tattoos and do the butter dance, things that will help me get a real
job someday.

sophomore year i lived in the columbia dorms with the crazy folks you see
on
the right. we worked very hard to maintain the serious academic
environment of our prestigious university by organizing intellectually
stimulating and enriching extra-curricular activities, such as dressing up
as the spice girls... can you tell who is who?
baby spice was my roomate.

posh spice and i had a wild time skydiving
one saturday, too (see left).

during the summer of 2000, i went traveling around my own country for a
change,
soaking up some good old-fashioned americana. so far i've confirmed that
americans are a very disturbed group of humans, but there's as much to
love as anywhere else. i'll have photos from my journey from the big apple
to hawaii to texas to seattle next time i get my paws on a scanner or i
can con lachlan into scanning them for me.

sometimes when i travel, i bring my guitar on the road with me, and serenade passer-bys.
if i'm lucky, i can earn my night's stay in the nearest hostel. for a self-made
doodle of my guitar, follow this stinky linky.
probably more impressive is my spray paint art.